constituteproject.org
• Extraordinary legislative sessions
• Length of legislative sessions
PDF generated: 04 Jan 2016, 20:27
Article 52
The National Assembly can be reunited in extraordinary session on a specific agenda
at the demand of the President of the Republic, of the President of the National
Assembly or at the demand of the absolute majority of the Deputies.
The duration of an extraordinary session may not exceed fifteen days. The National
Assembly recesses once the agenda is exhausted.
• Leader of first chamber
Article 53
The President of the National Assembly is elected for the duration of the legislature.
• Legislative committees
• Standing committees
Article 54
The National Assembly establishes its internal regulations. The internal regulations
determine:
• the composition, and the rules of functioning of the Bureau as well as the
powers and prerogatives of its President;
• the number, mode of designation, the composition, the role and the
competence of its permanent commissions, as well as that of those which
are special and temporary;
• the creation of parliamentary commissions of inquiry within the framework
of the control of the action of the Government;
• the procedure of interpellation of the Government;
• the regime of discipline of the Deputies;
• the organization of the administrative services placed under the authority
of the President of the National Assembly, assisted by an Administrative
Secretary General;
• the different modes of the ballot, with the exception of those expressly
specified in this Constitution;
• in a general manner, all the rules having for their object the functioning of
the National Assembly within the framework of its constitutional
competence.
TITLE V: OF THE RELATIONS BETWEEN THE
LEGISLATIVE POWER AND THE EXECUTIVE
POWER
Article 55
The National Assembly exercises the legislative power. It alone votes the law by
simple majority, under reserve of the provisions of Article 67.
Djibouti 1992 (rev. 2010)
Page 12